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As the Democrats under President Johnson began to support civil rights, the formerly Solid South, meaning solidly Democratic, became solidly Republican, except in districts with a large number of African-American voters. Since the 1960s, the Democratic Party has been considered liberal and the Republican Party has been considered conservative ...
Liberal: Democratic: Roosevelt was re-elected as a Democrat. Albert Watson: South Carolina: 2nd: February–June 1965 90th: Democratic: Republican: Watson resigned his seat as a Democrat on February 1, 1965, and then won a special election as a Republican on June 15, 1965. Ogden Reid: New York: 26th: March 22, 1972 92nd: Republican: Democratic ...
Before the election of the first federal leader of the party (the Liberal Democrats having a federal structure in their internal party organisation), the leaders of the two parties which merged to form the Liberal Democrats, the Liberal Party and the Social Democratic Party (SDP), served as joint interim leaders: David Steel and Bob Maclennan ...
List of Liberal Democrat MPs; Name Start End Constituency Ref. Danny Alexander: 2005 2015 Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey: Richard Allan: 1997 2005 Sheffield Hallam: Heidi Allen: 2019 [a] 2019 South Cambridgeshire: David Alton: 1988 [b] 1997 Liverpool Mossley Hill: Gideon Amos: 2024 Taunton and Wellington: Steffan Aquarone: 2024 North ...
Democratic: Republican: Announced the switch on March 17, 1984, but didn't officially make it until July 5 in order to keep his Democratic committee assignments for as long as possible. [14] [15] John Jarman: Oklahoma: 5th: January 24, 1975: 94th: Democratic: Republican [16] Greg Laughlin: Texas: 14th: June 26, 1995: 104th: Democratic ...
This is a list of major Democratic Party candidates for president. The Democratic Party has existed since the dissolution of the Democratic-Republican Party in the 1820s, and the Democrats have nominated a candidate for president in every presidential election since the party's first convention in 1832.
Senators are popularly elected statewide every two years, with one-third beginning new six-year terms with each Congress, In this Congress, Class 1 meant their term ended with this Congress, facing re-election in 1976; Class 2 meant their term began in the last Congress, facing re-election in 1978; and Class 3 meant their term began in this Congress, facing re-election in 1980.
[2] [b] Since 1824, the national popular vote has been recorded, [3] though the national popular vote has no direct effect on the winner of the election. [c] The following candidates won at least 0.1% of the national popular vote in elections held since 1824, or won at least one electoral vote from an elector who was not a faithless elector. [4 ...